Can Britain fight off the Greek debt monster?

Europe may offer Greece a bailout today - will that stop the sovereign debt crisis?

These are good days to be a drug dealer in Spain. More than 3,700 tonnes of
contraband is thought to have made landfall in the past year — mainly
hashish from Morocco and cocaine from Colombia — before passing into the
rest of Europe. The authorities managed to seize only 10%.

Now the recession has handed traffickers another advantage: a growing pool of
jobless people. Spain has 20% unemployment, the highest rate in Europe. For
the young it’s worse: two in five cannot find work. Many are turning to one
of the few industries that is truly recession-proof.

Tomas Navarro, a colonel in the Civil Guard, the national police, said: “A
new, worrying phenomenon is that among those apprehended we’re finding the
unemployed and small businessmen in financial trouble that never had any
relationship with this world before.”